This is a delightful weaving of comedy, earnest teen coming-of-age drama, perky spontaneous music & dance, err... horror, obviously, and above all delicious black humour. I can't stand zombies really but in a comedy context like this, and yes of course in the legendary Shaun if the Dead, it's a real hoot to have them stumbling around. Top marks for the geniuses who managed to balance all the elements here together so well. It also feels so very British a film and the writing is smart and sassy and the jokes and characters so nicely self-deprecating. The scene with the beautiful young Ella Hunt blissfully singing and dancing in the street with her earphones on whist bloody mayhem plays out behind her is a real keeper and one can imagine this was a scream to make - with all the extras in bloddied up in work uniforms and Christmas garb. The little chase just after this by a single snow-man zombie in the playground, and so many other little compositions, like the dangerous passage through the high street Xmas tree emporium, worked to elevate the absurd beyond the sublime through to the ridiculous. Arguably virtually every horror movie is laced with humour, but this one confidently, carelessly wears it in its furry sleeve.
Review of Anna and the Apocalypse
